Legal Theory

Examining the inherent spatiality of law, both theoretically and as social practice, this book presents a genealogical account of the the development of the juridical. It considers legal and philosophical texts, artistic and literary works, as well as judicial practices, to document a series of crit..

 Examining the inherent spatiality of law, both theoretically and as social practice, this book presents a genealogical account of the emergence and the development of the juridical. In an analysis that stretches from ancient Greece, through late antiquity and early modern and modern Europe, and on ..

The central argument of this book is that there can be no justice that is not articulated through and in matter. More specifically, spatial justice, it is argued here, names the struggle of various bodies – human, natural, non-organic, technological – to occupy a certain space at a certain time. See..

The central argument of this book is that there can be no justice that is not articulated through and in matter. More specifically, spatial justice, it is argued here, names the struggle of various bodies – human, natural, non-organic, technological – to occupy a certain space at a certain time. See..

Against jurisprudential reductions of Spinoza’s thinking to a kind of eccentric version of Hobbes, this book argues that Spinoza’s theory of natural right contains an important idea of absolute freedom, which would be inconceivable within Hobbes’ own schema. Spinoza famously thought that the univers..

Against jurisprudential reductions of Spinoza’s thinking to a kind of eccentric version of Hobbes, this book argues that Spinoza’s theory of natural right contains an important idea of absolute freedom, which would be inconceivable within Hobbes’ own schema. Spinoza famously thought that the univers..

In the last decade, the changing role of time in society has taken centre stage in social theoretical and sociological debate. Both law and politics employ time to order society but they are also limited in what can be effectuated by time. It is this tension between temporal possibilities and limita..

This book takes up a general anthropological paradox that has always marked the human animal: bound by its own biological constitution to fend off disorder by drawing the boundaries of an artificial niche and to expose itself to unlimited contingency precisely in order to find a truly suitable envir..

This book insists upon a re-thinking of Western theories of Justice, arguing that injustice, not justice, should be the focus of our attention...

What does Carl Schmitt have to offer to ongoing debates about sovereignty, globalization, spatiality, the nature of the political, and political theology? Can Schmitt’s positions and concepts offer insights that might help us understand our concrete present-day situation? Engaging the background and..

What does Carl Schmitt have to offer to ongoing debates about sovereignty, globalization, spatiality, the nature of the political, and political theology? Can Schmitt’s positions and concepts offer insights that might help us understand our concrete present-day situation? Engaging the background and..

The founding premise of this book is that the nimbus of prestige, which once surrounded the idea of justice, has now been dimmed to such a degree that it is no longer sufficient to secure the possibility of a good conscience for those who undertake, in good faith, to make the world a better place in..